What is the Systems Biology Markup Language?

Molecular biotechnology now makes it possible to build
elaborate systems models, but the systems biology community
needs agreed-upon information standards if models are to be
shared, evaluated and developed cooperatively. We propose
the Systems Biology
Markup Language (SBML) as a common representation
language for storing biochemical models. SBML is based on XML, and contains structures
for representing compartments, species and reactions, as well
as optional unit definitions, parameters and rules
(constraints).
We have kept the
base definition of the language as simple as possible, so that
simulator developers will not find it too difficult to implement
support for SBML in their tools.

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